The Ecuadorian Committee of Foreign Trade (Comex), on 11 March 2015, decided to apply an additional tariff surcharge on a wide range of products. The surcharge varies between 5% and 45% depending on the type of product.

On 9 July 2014, the President of Brazil issued Provisional Measure (PM) no. 651 reintroducing the REINTEGRA program which had originally been terminated on 31 December 2013. The PM, which was transformed into Decree no.

On 31 December 2013, the European Commission announced in regulation 1421/2013 it would drop China, the Maldives, Ecuador and Thailand from the list of countries eligible for the tariff preferences, since they have been classified by the Worl

On 10 June 2013, the Government of India, vide Notification No. 17 (RE-2013) / 2009-2014, notified Iran as a country eligible to the benefits under Para 2.35(b) of India's Foreign Trade Policy 2009-14.

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